A defendant who was under age 18 at the time he raped a 13-year-old female acquaintance could be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice even though he had turned 18 by the time of trial, and the trial court ...

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A flight attendant who slipped on an escalator during a layover at the airport in Omaha can collect workers’ comp for her wrist injury based on her testimony that she that she slipped on something slick on the step; the ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp

Appellant LifeCare Medical Transports Inc. cannot avoid reimbursement of $367,178 it received in overpayments for providing specialty care ambulance services for Medicaid and dual-eligible Medicaid/Medicare patients that resulted from a system error in the Department of Medical Assistance Services’ computer ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms a trial court order that modified an existing no contact order restricting appellant grandmother’s access to her granddaughter after removal of the child from the grandmother’s custody for placement in foster care. Despite the no ...

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Although a welder suffered his workplace injury from tripping over his toolbox two weeks prior to his planned retirement, he is not eligible for wage loss benefits, but is entitled to medical benefits, the Court of Appeals says. Claimant filed ...

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A defendant cannot overturn his conviction of aggravated sexual battery on the ground that the trial court violated defendant’s Sixth Amendment right by allowing the child victim to write a portion of her testimony, rather than speaking it; in this ...

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A defendant who used a stolen Belk credit card to go to three different locations within a store and make three separate purchases over a period of about 40 minutes can be convicted of three counts of grand larceny under ...

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Although claimant, whose hand was crushed by a cinder block in a work-related injury, only completed Part A of his claim for workers’ compensation benefits and did not explicitly request lifetime medical benefits, the commission did not err in finding ...

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A police officer on the lookout for a black Mitsubishi could pull defendant’s car after the officer passed him on a two-lane highway and observed a tree-shaped air freshener hanging from defendant’s rear-view mirror, a possible violation of Virginia’s “obstruction ...

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The circuit court erred in dismissing competitor’s appeal of a hospital permitting decision for lack of standing, the Court of Appeals says; standing is determined from properly pled allegations and the case is remanded. Applicant applied to the State Health ...

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